Up and Down Wall Street

Street Crime

Beware blondes soliciting stock tips. In fact, beware blondes soliciting. Ditto redheads and brunettes. What prompts that unsolicited advice was last week's tearful guilty plea by Danielle Chiesi to three counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud for her role in the now celebrated (by government gumshoes) insider trading scandal featuring the hedge fund Galleon Group, its beleaguered leader, Raj Rajaratnam, and a not-so-stellar cast of two score Street people and minor luminaries from Corporate America, some 25 of whom have...